"Kalfus is doing what most gifted historical novelists do: picking one of the moments when the star of modernity first appeared in the sky, then staring at it until its very gravity seems to increase, drawing into its orbit any stray comets in the vicinity...."

My new collection, Coup de Foudre: A Novella and Stories, will be published by Bloomsbury in May, 2015. It will include stories published in Harper's Magazine, Agni and elsewhere, as well as new, unseen work!